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Pandemic spurs advice, insurance rethink

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many Australians to review their life insurance cover and seek the help of a financial adviser. This is according to the annual MetLife Adviser-Client Relationship Report, which reveals that over 40% of the participants ...

Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... policy and fiscal policy accommodative until the economic recovery becomes sustainable and the world has gotten on top of the covid-19 pandemic and its variants.

Chief economist update: Bubble, bubble getting out of trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... two-way street... until now. The Trans-Tasman bubble marks a fresh and significant step into normalising life after the COVID-19 pandemic. Both economies stand to gain. Not only would the re-opening of borders sans quarantine re-start postponed reunions ...

Two Aussie CIOs on top 100 list

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... alongside $171 billion Future Fund's Sue Brake. "Michalakis implemented a nine-point risk management plan to navigate COVID-19 that provided guidance to the trustee board regarding the overall liquidity, member switching, currency hedging, asset ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
Australia is back! Back on track after its economy was cruelly interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This space had been ranting about the virtuous cycle that had been circling around the nation since activity and business and consumer sentiment indicators ...

ASIC extends advice relief measure

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... measure was introduced in April 2020. ROAs can replace SOAs for existing clients whose personal situations have changed due to COVID-19, and if the client sees advisers from the same licensee or practice, but not their usual adviser. The present advice ...

ETFs crack $100bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... markets Minh Tieu said. "Investor confidence has greatly improved since this time last year when markets were first rocked by COVID-19. "While domestic equity, niche and leveraged ETFs were favoured in the first half of 2020 as investors sought to navigate ...

UniSuper tops MySuper league tables

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
UniSuper topped MySuper tables for the three years to February end, as default options hit their one-year high since COVID-19 started. UniSuper Balanced returned 8.3% p.a. over the three-year period, making it the best performing MySuper option. It ...

BGL expands product range overseas

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... operating in Singapore for over 20 years. It recently connected its QR code-driven GuestTrack with the Victorian government's COVID-19 check-in system. BGL launched GuestTrack in mid-2020 as a free QR code check-in app for businesses. Since then, about ...

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... same day of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Perhaps not. A more rationale rational is that with cases of COVID-19 infections in Australia virtually nil, life Down Under has been returning to normal, vaccinated or not. So much so that recent ...